Sun Tzu Quotes, War Quotes, Lying Quotes

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

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Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

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They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lying Quotes , Dishonesty Quotes

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Lying Quotes , Humanity Quotes

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

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For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

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